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The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal thriller film based on the 1992 novel by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula , the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham.
Upon arrival at Bletchley, she was tasked with cataloguing encrypted German radio messages intercepted by the British, contributing to the breaking of the German cipher Enigma. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] While a bulk of Bletchley Park workers were assigned to one of the huts, such as Hut 3, Hut 11, Webb was mainly situated in the Mansion belonging to Major ...
The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. [1] It is his third novel after A Time to Kill and The Firm. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993. A namesake film adaptation was released in 1993 starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War, notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere. Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
The first episode revealed that Station X was the cover name for the World War II radio interception station co-located with the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park. [6] In 1938 the British Secret Service bought Bletchley Park, installing wireless receiver (call-sign: "Station X") to pick up German messages. A small group of ...
The movie follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) on her quest to live in the real world, but for those of us already in the human realm, Barbie Land offers a fun and colorful break from reality.
[6] [7] At Bletchley his technical expertise allowed him to salvage a waterlogged codebook which helped crack the Enigma code. [6] [8] Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh is Tandy's daughter by his second wife Maire McDermott. He had five children in total. [1] Tandy's papers are held at the Natural History Museum. [9]
Roll of Honour may refer to: A war memorial; A list of people who are praised officially for something they have done; A memorial list of names of people who have died in military, police service or other services "Roll of Honour" (song), an Irish Republican song praising the participants in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike